Contents:
- Medical Video: Removing My 47 Piercings For Surgery
- Removing jewelry during preparation for surgery is for your safety
- 1. Interfering with operating procedures
- 2. Swelling during and after surgery
- 3. The risk of infection is high
- Then, what if I can't remove the jewelry before surgery?
Medical Video: Removing My 47 Piercings For Surgery
Surgery preparation is not only a matter of hospitalization and fasting a few hours beforehand. Especially if you wear jewelry or body piercing, you will also be asked to take it off before entering the operating room. No, this is not because your doctor or nurse is jealous of your body jewelry or for fear of being lost. The reason you have to remove jewelry before surgery has something to do with your safety during surgery. How come?
Removing jewelry during preparation for surgery is for your safety
Many people assume that the reason for removing jewelry before entering the operating room is fear that the item will be lost. Actually, this is not entirely wrong. However, behind this there are medical reasons why you are not allowed to use jewelry when the operation takes place. What are the reasons?
1. Interfering with operating procedures
If your doctor instructs you to remove piercings and all jewelry in the body, don't hesitate to obey. Because, this is feared can interfere with operating procedures that will be carried out or even endanger your life.
For example, you have a piercing on the tongue. This of course will make it difficult for the medical team to install a breathing tube hose which is usually done at the beginning of the operation. If the piercing is still on your tongue when the equipment is installed, it is not impossible that the piercing is actually swallowed and eventually causes other problems.
Piercing in other parts of the body must also be removed before surgery, depending on the type of surgery performed. for example, you will do surgery on the abdomen, then the piercing in the abdomen should also be removed before surgery.
2. Swelling during and after surgery
Using jewelry or piercing can cause swelling in the body during and after surgery. For example, you use a bracelet or ring that fits your finger and wrist.
So this, can cause blood flow not smooth to the hand because of the jewelry you use. So that your body parts become swollen during and after the surgery. Of course this is also not good for your health in general.
3. The risk of infection is high
During surgery, everything should be sterile, thereby reducing the risk of infection. However, if you use jewelry or other metal objects in your body, this might affect ‘cleanliness’ and make the operating area not sterile. This will then cause an infection during the operation.
Then, what if I can't remove the jewelry before surgery?
In some cases, jewelry may be left in the body. but it really depends on what surgery will be done and which body parts will be operated on. For example, when a person has arthritis or inflammation of the joint that cannot remove the ring from his finger. Usually, the doctor will allow this, because of joint pain that the patient is experiencing.
However, in some other cases, it is possible for the doctor to forcibly remove the jewelry or the piercing that is attached because it interferes with the procedure. Therefore, when you are preparing for surgery, you should ask your doctor what things should be done and what jewelry should be released.
